[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58830] imprecise error message for "size(foo, end)"

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #58830 (project octave):

Rik: yeah, I don't see how to do what Mike showed in the other bug report.  If
evaluation of the argument list fails, then we can't really proceed to look up
the function because we don't really know what the arguments are for
dispatching.  The simplest solution seems to be to just throw an "invalid use
of 'end' in index expression".  If it occurs within a function, you should get
a stack trace to tell you the line where the error happened.  Yes, it makes
the error for undefined X different for X(1:end) vs X(1:10), but that seems
reasonable to me.

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